The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-08-19
Compliments to ..E. a. Pr

Last weeks issue OF our local contem-
porary contained "A communication
signed % A. P" purporting to bolster
up the feeble intellect exhibited by that
sheet, but which was il reality a weak
and fruitlcss attempt To get even with
the GRAPHIC for somc faucied grievance
For the sake of argument-as they say
We admit that the so called communica-
ton was a bona tide one. Who or what
81. A. P.' is is, of course, a mere mat
terof conjecture, but the public as well
as the GRAPHIC can guess close enough
for all practical purposes. All vii.
agree nat his writings and his cowardly
method of attacking a newspaper that
has never done him harm leads one to
think that in attaching his Signature to
his weak production he should have
either left the u" off and signed him
self "A Piinp" or omitted the last initia !
and merely written Jack ASS" Eth
cr cognomen or both would fit him beau
tifully. If he thinks not so let him for
once III his life clotle himself with the
semblnnce of Il man long enough to at
task this paper over his own signature
aid we will SO thoroughly demonstrate
it that he will for once in his life see him
self as others see him. mot only this,
but for his own personal beneiit-the
public know itnow-we will easily show
him-tbis stinker who don't pay out u
I Ia1,Dr- SUi,nrn tho \, , y N, "a ~ lnnc ta,
that the editor of this paper spends
more money in kimball every year than
both he and his catsraw across the way
combined. Why, you Mr.. "PigmY," or
Mr.. "Polccat." or Mr.. ''Pimp," or what
ever you call yourself, this Office has
paid out more money for help, etc.-;n
clean cash right into the town-in one
year than your tool has from the day he
set foot in Kimball and began his sneak
ing, unbusiness-like, u~nderhanded and
unprofessional methods of obtaining pat
ronage up TO the present time. Such
fellows generally do hold their own
after a fashi1n-and they equally as well
bold II to what they get, tool The
plea set up by this white-hvcred sneak
81. A. p that the council was attacked
because the interests of the town were
being jeopardized is too thin, and won't
be swallowed by the general public who
know so well that the whole business
was a piece of spite work on the part of
two or three individual of which this
| IN, VOW, al.,Ir 81 u 4, $3.50, No..
mover-to injure solne of the city
officials in the estimation of the general
public and Observation-Disclosures
tier chances for reelection. In this
they found the little Ill-kiss your foot
for-a-dollar man and his paper a willing
tool-not that he loved kimballs repu-
tation abroad less but thai he loved their
patronage more; in other words, he sat
istied their demands in his sheet publicly
and ran his chances in smoothing. over
his dirty work to the members of the
council privately. 1t was natural, that
this unique specimen -. A. P" should
stand by rim. Ne Gods, but the GRAPH
&c feels honored when such exceedingly
long cared asses bray Mt it. OF course
there We're some who-outsidc of any
personal ends whatever-honestly be.
lieved il better to at once throw up the
new incorporation and for whose opin
ions we have the greatest respect. They
are not 81 the y. y. p" stripe and con
stitute no part of his little . X 4 clique
Had this little ring been prompted by
any motive other than that stated; hat
sEes really been actuatcd by a desire to
l promote the interests Of the many a
against the few; had ii been the welfare
et. the city that moved them, then nor
. would have sooner done them reverence,
+ than .hc GRAPuC-althongh it ccrtainl,
+ woula haze questioned taking the loca
press to accomplish the object.
, In conclusion, we fully realize that il
Il controversy with Il pu-illanimous GU
who shields himself bellin n Gctictou
signature a newspaper is at a decide,
5 disadvantagc-onc never likes to battl
, with a skunk in a dark cellal. DERIVED
G of his nom de-ptH1ae this thing who as
sails the GRAPHIC would be in much IL.
c same situation Il, would a polecat witt
out the peculiar means Of defense be
o slowed by nature. For tie unpr,
fessional act of noticing an article over
c nom.dc-pi1nae and for answering this pill
d of ordure j. A. p" we tender ourrCaC
ers an apology ard only excuse the il
Fiction. ever to ourselves, on the sam
grounds that physicians justify the re-
. urrectionists work-the necessity of di
o secting pollution that the better porto
d Of humanity may b benefited by obsc
Yatinn.